Read the Web
Research Project at Carnegie Mellon University

NELL: Never-Ending Language Learning

Browse the Knowledge Base!

Can computers learn to read? We think so. "Read the Web" is a research project that attempts to create a computer system that learns over time to read the web. Since January 2010, our computer system called NELL (Never-Ending Language Learner) has been running continuously, attempting to perform two tasks each day:

• First, it attempts to "read," or extract facts from text found in hundreds of millions of web pages (e.g., playsInstrument(George_Harrison, guitar)).
• Second, it attempts to improve its reading competence, so that tomorrow it can extract more facts from the web, more accurately.

So far, NELL has accumulated over 50 million candidate beliefs by reading the web, and it is considering these at different levels of confidence. NELL has high confidence in 2,810,379 of these beliefs — these are displayed on this website. It is not perfect, but NELL is learning. You can track NELL's progress below or @cmunell on Twitter, browse and download its knowledge base, read more about our technical approach, or join the discussion group.

Recently-Learned Facts

instance	iteration	date learned	confidence
ncaa_college_football is a sport	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
possible_financial_fraud ia a crime or charge	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
islamic_fundamentalist_groups is a terrorist organization	1111	06-jul-2018	99.5
striped_red_shrimp is a crustacean	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
evanston_hotels is a building	1111	06-jul-2018	93.7
dane_county_regional is an attraction that will be fall in city madison	1116	12-sep-2018	96.9
enkhuizen is a city located in the country netherlands	1116	12-sep-2018	99.6
english is a language used in the university university_of_florida	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
the companies manchester_guardian and new_york compete with eachother	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
mon_ami_gabi_restaurant is a restaurant in the city las_vegas	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0